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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
- Example: "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"
[syn: torso, trunk, body]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Torso \Tor"so\, n.; pl. E. Torsos, It. Torsi. [It. torso, probably fr. L. thyrsus a stalk, stem, thyrsus, Gr. ?; cf. OHG. torso, turso, a stalk, stem, G. dorsche a cabbage stalk. Cf. Thyrsus, Truss.] The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

torso n 1: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk, body]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "torso": anatomy, body, bones, carcass, clay, clod, corpus, figure, flesh, form, frame, hulk, material body, person, physical body, physique, soma, trunk